POLICE or LONDON. ROBBERIES.—Mrs. Johnstone, the wife of a naval

officer, complained on Monday, at Bow-street, that her premises at Earl's- court, Kensington, had been broken into during the previous evening. From the carriage-house the thieves had taken away five chests, one of them four feet long, containing sea-charts, clothes, jewellery, and other property. The com- plainant stated that robberies were so common in the neighbourhood of Ken- sington that the inhabitants were afraid to go to bed at night.

The officers at Bow-street have been indefatigable, but unsuccessful, in their endeavours to apprehend the persons concerned in the robbery of Mr. Warrington's house, at West Moulsey. One of the female servants has been apprehended on suspicion.

RAPE.—On Thursday, Mr. Smith, an East India merchant, residing at Eus- ton-place, New-road, was brought to Marlborough-street, charged with an atrocious crime committed on the person of Jane Burn, his housemaid, about nineteen years of age. Her testimony was positive ; and the defence which Mr. Smith attempted, was disproved by his cook. As the Magistrate could not take bail, the accused was conveyed to the House of Correction, and the witnesses were bound over to prosecute the capital crime. COAL Feeues.—Samuel Fulmer was on Thursday fined in the penalty, of 101. by the Magistrates at Queen-square, for having a half-bushel measure with a false bottom.

BIGAMY.—John Lloyd, otherwise Daniel Heath, a young man respectably connected, was charged at Bow-street, on Wednesday, with having married Margaret Evans in 1826, while his first wife was still alive. The complainant (who had a child in her arms) said that she was so much attached to the pri- soner notwithstanding his ill-treatment, that if he had only contributed in some degree towards the maintenance of his child, and not left them both to starve, she would never have prosecuted him. Her father and mother were both (lead. She stated the circumstances of the marriage. The ceremony was witnessed by a female whois in France, and by Thomas Ayling. Before Ayling was sworn, he acknowledged, in answer to a question from the prisoner, that he did not believe in a future state of rewards and punishthents. His plain avowal excited surprise on the Bench, and gave rise to a lengthened colloquy, in which Ayling maintained his opinions with obstinacy, but with decency of language. " How is it," asked Mr. Minshull, "that you are of no re- ligion ?" " Because," replied Ayling, "I have witnessed such gross hypocrisy and immorality among those who profess to have most religion." He did not object to be sworn ; but he avowed that he would not consider himself any more influenced to tell the truth by the oath, than he would be without taking it. "On all occasions," said Ayling, "except on trifling matters of business, I feel bound to tell the truth." At the examination next day, Ayling, professed his readiness to abide by the usual form of oath ; and having been sworn, the case against the prisoner was completed, and he was committed for trial.

SWINDLING.—john Stephens was charged at Hatton Garden, on Monday, with having embezzled several sums belonging to his employers. He con- fessed to having misapplied the money; but he promised to restore it if the prosecutors forgave him. He was committed for trial.

Thomas Fisher Dodson, formerly clerk to Messrs. Hoare and Company, brewers, East Smithfield, was on Tuesday charged at Lambeth-street with having embezzled 2001. of their money. The money was paid. by a debtor of the company, by instalments, so long since as 1822; but it was only last week that they discovered the fact from their debtor. On examining the. defendant's books, it was found that he had net entered the money as rc. ceived. He was committed for trial.

Cases OF Misene.—An entire family, consisting of a man, his wife, and five children, complained at Guildhall, on Monday, against the parish-officers of St. Alban's for not contributing a sufficiency for their relief. The man was a silk weaver, but he could get no employment. They lived in one room, and a bundle of straw constituted their whole furniture. They lay by turns,--one half of the family occupying the straw on alternate evenings. For this ac- commodation they paid 3s. per week, which left them just is. to live upon. Alderman Garrett, gave the poor man 20s. and directed him to attend the Parish Committee on Prides'', when something would be done for him.

A poor man was charged at the Mansionhouse, on Thursday, with having stolen a cod fish. It appeared that the prisoner had a wife and three children starving at home; and that he had committed the theft to support their lives, as he was ashamed to apply for parish relief. The case was discharged and all the family were received into the workhouse.

EXECUTTONS.—On Monday morning, Harpure and Higgins forfeited their lives on the scaffold, in front of Newgate. So late as Saturday night a com- munication was made at the Home-office, in favour of Higgins; but it was judged necessary that the law should take its course. He met his fate with decent composure. Harpure, in reply to one of the questions generally put on such occasions, said, " No man can feel happier in my situation than I do." Mr. Sheriff Booth attended this melancholy part of his official duty on Monday for the first time.

Peter Fenn, who was to have been executed along with Harpure and Higgins, on Sunday evening received a respite for fourteen days. The respite was granted to afford time for further inquiry into his case.

IiluRDERS Roberts, a hatter in the parish of Bitten, near Bristol, has been committed to prison on the charge of having wilfully murdered his wife. Actuated by jealousy, he had beaten her unmercifully : the interference of the neighbours prevented further violence; but the woman never recovered; and a Coroner's Jury returned the verdict upon which Roberts has been imprisoned.

The Court of Assizes of the department du Nord lately condemned to fifteen years' imprisonment two boys only twelve years old, convicted of having committed, four years before, the two-fold crime of rape and murder upon the person of a little girl seven years of age. Two females were lately executed at Versailles for murder. One of them was convicted on circumstantial evidence, of having poisoned her hus- band, whom she much disliked ; but she was beheaded protesting her inno- cence. Her companion to the scaffold was ayoung girl, convicted of having strangled her mother. Her right arm was cut off by the executioner before she was put to death. Fourteen out of fifteen of those who witnessed the execution were females.

ROBBERIES—On Tuesday afternoon, the Savoy Palace Tavern, in Savoy- place, Strand, was robbed of money, in gold, silver, bank-notes, and bills, to the amount of about 800/. The robbery is supposed to have been effected by two young men who entered the house and had some refreshments, which were served in a sitting-room in the first floor. The robbery was discovered in a few minutes after their departure ; but the unfortunate proprietor, who only lately began business, has no clue by which he can trace the robbers. They have since sent back the bills.

The York Herald has published a long account of the detection and expo- sure of a governess in a family in a neighbouring town, who appears to have been born with a propensity to steal. This faculty she exercised in a manner that long protected her from suspicion and left her respectability un- impeached. At length a commercial gentleman, strolling through the streets eta late hour, met a lady, "whose genteel appearance," as the York Herald expresses it, " roused his curiosity and commanded his admiration. That she was not a courtezan, was evident to him ; but yet she hesitated as she passed him, and appeared to he in quest of an unknown friend. He stopped—con- versation ensued; but suspicious as the hour and the circumstances might appear, her virtue was not to be doubted, nor could her superior deportment and education be disguised. She was in apparent haste, but engaged to meet him again the following evening." There was something romantic in the ad_ venture; but while the traveller's curiosity was excited, his caution did not

forsake lion—he followed the lady and saw her enter a stately mansion, the number of which he took. The pleasantness of his reveries was soon disturbed by the discovery that his gold watch, &c. had been, carried off. By the

advice of a friend, he ,elid not wait for the promised interview with his fair unknown ; but proceeded to the mansion which she entered, with a police-

officer. The lady was brought before him, after all the other female inmates of the house had been subjected to his scrutiny, and he immediately recog_ nized the suspected thief. Protestations of innocence had no effect: her trunks were searched ; and not only the lost watch, but many other watches, several purses, and other things, the fruit of many a midnight ramble, were exposed to view. " The governess acknowledged that she had always held prostitution in the utmost abhorrence ; but she had a strong propensity to steal, and had picked many a pocket, whilst forming engagements of second interviews, which she never meant to confirm. In the midst of this career, she trusted for escape to the respectability of her situation being above sus- picion; and her discovery could then only be attributed to the credulity of her accuser. The whole affair, however, was made up, to save the feelings of the family, and she was discharged from their employment."

ROBBERY AND AFFECTION. —The Tribunal of Correctional Police of Rouen lately decided on the following very interesting case. Esther Nathan was confined in the prison of Rouen under a charge of having stolen some jewels. Her sister, Rosine, immediately on learning her danger, hastened from the foreign country she then inhabited ; and on their being permitted to see each other, the prisoner persuaded her that only a few days' liberty was requisite for procuring irrefragable proofs of her innocence. To save her sis- ter's character, Rosine generously offered to take her place in prison ; they soon exchanged dresses, and the prisoner was allowed to pass, but the change being discovered, the fugitive was arrested a few hours after, and her sister was on Tuesday brought before the above tribunal accused of facilitating the --escape of a prisoner. Her defender having ingeniously palliated her fault, by attributing it to the irresistible impulse of sisterly affection, she was con- demned to only three days' imprisonment. CHILD-STEALING.—On Sunday week, afine girl about twelveyears of age, the daughter of a tradesman in Dulwich, was stolen on her way home from church. A gig was observed to stop near the church, in which were a foreign-looking man and a woman shabbily dressed. The woman was seen to lead the child towards the gig, which immediately drove away with great rapidity. No trace of the robbers has been obtained.

FALSE AccniettoN.—A general Court-martial has been sitting at the Bar- racks of Kilkenny on the trial of a schoolmaster-serjeant and drum-major of the 32d regiment, for conspiring to prevent the Honourable John Maitland, the Lieutenant-Colonel of the corps, then absent on ill health, from rejoining the regiment, by the fabrication of charges transmitted under a fictitious sig- nature to the Earl of Lauderdale, the Colonel's father. The Colonel, the mo_ ment he came to the knowledge of the atrocious imputations against him, set off from Edinburgh to Kilkenny, though he had been prohibited by his me- dical attendantsfrom leaving his chamber.. Though the case is not yet decided, the accused have acknowledged their guilt; but the motive of their conduct does not appear.

Sumines.—John Mare, formerly a serving-man, drowned himself last week in a pond on Hampstead Heath. He had been out of place and had lost about 1401. by gambling; which had reduced hint to great distress, and affected his mind.

Cooke Nicholls, a labourer at Frampton, and the father of five children, last week committed self-murder under singular circumstances. He had be- come attached to a young woman in Boston, who refused to be married to him. On Sunday he made himself drunk with a friend, and having procured two bottles of laudanum, he called upon the object of his love, and declared that he would poison himself if she persisted in her refusal. She did refuse ; and Nicholls and his friend then retired to a public-house and made themselves still more drunk. In this state, Nicholls swallowed the laudanum. The per- son who was with him saw him speechless when he awoke in the morning; but, instead of going direct for a surgeon, he went and had more liquor; and the surgeon did not arrive till too late to save the drunken suicide. On Wednesday week, while a man and his wife were returning from Shef- field to Attercliffe, they had some words together. In a fit of irritation, the woman flung herself into the canal. He husband, anxious to save her, leaped into the water, but he perished in his attempt to relieve her, and both were taken out dead.

011 the 14th of November, Benjamin Angell, a commercial traveller for a London house cut his throat in an inn at Chipping Norton. He had pre- viously attempted to destroy himself by swallowing an ounce of laudanum but his stomach rejected the draught.

A shocking case of murder and suicide occurred in Birmingham, on Sun- day. Edward Roach, a whipmaker, came home in the evening, and was re- proached by his wife for the irregularities of his conduct. Tfie neighbours were early alarmed by a thrilling scream of "Murder !" accompanied soon after by the report of a pistol. An officer having been procured, the door was burst open. The wife was found lying on the floor with her body fearfully mangled; and in another part of the room, Roach himself was discovered stretched dead upon a bed, with his brains scattered thickly over his shoulders. On his left arm lay a poor little infant awake, and near him the pistol with which he had effected his destruction. His two other children were fast asleep in bed. A young man of Blackburn last week inflicted five or six wounds on his throat with a razor, but without touching any vital part. He afterwards rose from bed, and accomplished the act of self-destruction by throwing himself into the canal.

Coieleo.—Base coin, to the amount of 1160/. was last week found in the house of a Mrs. Morton, in Manchester. She was committed for trial.

STEALING LETTERS.—.Allan Macleon, aged fifteen, was on Monday tried before the High Court of Justiciary, at Edinburgh, on the charge of having

embezzled a letter containing 50/. in Bank-notes. The youth was post-runner between Oban and Tobermory : he could neither read nor speak the English language. The nature of his crime, and his perilous situation, were explained to him in Gaelic ; and he pleaded guilty to the charge. This crime was made capital by the 52d Geo. 111. ; but in the present case the Lord Advocate de- parted from the higher penalty, and the Court pronounced sentence of trans- portation for life.

ANOTHER DEATH BY THE EXPLOSION AT COVENT GARDEN THEATRE.--.-

Skinner, one of the four individuals who were in the gas-room of Covent Garden Theatre, died on Sunday morning. He has left awife and two young children. Nothing new transpired at the inquest; and the Coroner's Jury

found," that the deceased met his death accidentally, by the incautious intro- duction of a back-lamp by one of the party." Secreas.—On Wednesday evening, at a respectable tavern in the neigh- bourhood of Covent-garden, a gentleman asked the waiter fora segar ; and he had scarcely applied it to his mouth, lighted, when it exploded ;being charged with gunpowder, and burnt his face, eyebrows, &c.—it is feared that he will lose an eye.

EARL WILTON.—While his Lordship was engaged in the chase on Thurs- day, he met with an accident which might have terminated fatally. In riding a strange horse (the huntsman's) at a post-and-rail fence, the animal once refused to leap, but took it the second time, and in an ineffectual attempt to clear it, threw a complete somerset, and fell with the rider undermost, by which one or two of his Lordship's ribs were broken. His Lordship soon re- covered himself, and was not, at first, aware of the extent of his in jury .—Ckes- ter Courant.

Lady Afieck, themother of Lady Holland, was overturned in her carriage the other day, while taking an airing on the Marine Parade, Brighton. Her Ladyship was bruised, but sustained no essential injury. A fatal accident occurred at Paris on Friday. The Earl of Pembroke's coachman was exercising a pair of his Lordship's thorough-bred horses in a break in the Champs Elysees. The horses took fright, can oft, upset an apple stall and its unfortunate proprietor, an old woman. The wheels passed over her neck, and killed the pour creature on the spot. The horses conti- nued to run until the carriage came in contact with a tree. The horses and the shattered carriage were taken possession of by the police ; but on the interference of the Duc de Guiche, were restored to their noble owner • who will, however, have to make a large pecuniary amende to the family of the ufferer.

FALL 0F A House .—A house in Church-court, Kensington, fell on Wed- nesday afternoon. No lives were lost by the accident; but a man in one of the attics, and a boy in a back-room, very narrowly escaped destruction. DEATH BY FIRE-ABMS.—Last week, while Mr. Markham, son of Mr. Markham of Holy-lodge, near Epsom, was beating some bushes in search of a partridge which he had shot, his gun went off, the shot lodged in his body, and hi died in a few days after. FIRE.—On Monday, a factory at Helden-bridge, near Manchester, was completely destroyed by tire. The value of the property is estimated at nearly 20,0001. The accident has thrown about five hundred people idle.

A female was killed in a manufactory, near Ringley, on Wednesday week, by falling from the fourth to the first fluor, through holes in the floors by which goods are raised. She was taken up dead.

On the 20th ultimo, a servant to a farmer near East Retford wds trodden down by a bull, and would have been killed, but for the active interference of Bankes, a fellow servant. Bankes sat up all night with his wounded com- panion; and whilst thus alleviating his sufferings, repeatedly cautioned him against venturing too pear the animal in future. Poor Bankes next forenoon untied the bull ; but he had scarcely done so, when the vicious brute crushed him against the wall with such violence as to force his ribs and breast-bones almost to his back-bone. He was only heard to exclaim, " Lord have mercy upon me," when he expired.

FLOOD.—In consequence of a heavy fall of rain at Glasgow, on Saturday and Sunday, the Clyde overflowed its banks, and the shops and houses in the lower parts of the city were inundated. Some of the vessels at the Broomie- law floated over the breast of the quay; and the Robert Bruce steam-boat was left on the quay when the waters receded. The overflowing of the Cans- lachie Burn has done considerable injury to the spinning-mills, and was likely to throw six or seven hundred people idle for some days.

SHIPWRECKS.—The heavy gales of wind from the east, on Monday, have been attended with much mischief to the shipping on the eastern coast. At Filey, so fierce and sudden was the gale, that no boat could face the sea; though about an hour before the crews of the shipping-boats had intended going out to fish. Twelve ships and one sloop were driven on shore ; but owing to the efficient and gallant manner in which the life-boat was managed, not one life was lost. The master of one vessel had a leg broken, and a seaman of an- other had an arm fractured. A mother and her infant child were borne through the tremendous waves, and landed in safety. Several other females were saved from the vessels.

About eighty ships and vessels lost anchors and cables in the Downs. The books at Lloyd's on Wednesday showed a list of thirty coasting vessels that had been driven on shore.

A vessel belonging to North Shields was wrecked on the Barnet Sand. The crew perished. A vessel from lalimmiche to Leith was driven on Bondica rocks, and had two of her crew drowned. • The brig Hunter, of London, loaded with timber, from Shields, went on shore near Calais in the hurricane : when a tremendous sea broke over her, which washed the master and five seamen off the deck. The boy lost not a moment in throwing out a rope to their assistance. The Captain caught it and was saved, together with the mate ; but the five seamen perished.

It is feared that the Redpole packet, from Buenos Ayres, has been lost at sea; as she has been out nearly four months from Rio Janeiro. She had ten passengers on board, and a large freight. By the loss of this packet, and the Hearty some time since to windward of Barbadoes, upwards of one hundred children at Falmouth and its vicinity are deprived of their fathers.

A ship of the line, from the Morea for Alexandria, with troops, horses, and stores on board, has been lost. The crew and troops were saved ; but six hundred horses, three hundred pieces of cannon, with the ship's guns, and an immense quantity of ship furniture and naval stores that had escaped the de- struction of Navarino, were lost.

The French West Indiaman, La Jeune Emma, of Cherbourg, Du Chatillon, master, of five hundred tons burden, bound to Havresde-Grace, with suga7r, coffee, rum, &c. was wrecked on Gefu Sidan sands, in Carmarthen bay, on Friday night. It appears that in a thick fog the unfortunate strangers mistook Lundy Island lights for those of Ushant, and steered their .course accordingly, which soon brought them on those dangerous shoals ; and the total loss of their vessel, and nearly the whole of her cargo, was the fatal result. Out of nineteen souls on board, the master, six passengers, and six seamen were drowned. The remaining six seamen were saved.

WILKIE and CHANTRY.—These celebrated artists who have been for some days on a visit at Windsor with Mr. Wyatville, had, by command, an inter- view with the King, on Thursday week, in company with Mr. Wyatville, in his Majesty's private closet, which lasted for three hours. Tux THeaztas.—Covent Garden reopened on Thursday. The house is now well lighted with wax and oil; and the bad smell, if not entirely con- quered by art, will yield to the influence of time. M. Scribe and Co.'s La Vieille, formerly done into English for Vauxhall, has been reproduced at Drury Lane, as an operetta, by Mr. Lacy, under the

title of Love in Wrinkles. Old Braham is vigorous and vivacious in Count

Adolphe, a French officer, affianced in law though not at first in love, to a Russian Countess of blooming eighteen, who contrives to pass herself for a ve-

nerable dame of sixty, until the nuptial knot is tied. Miss Love is that Countess.

UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW.—On Tuesday, Mr. Thomas Campbell was re. elected Lord Rector of the University of this city, after one of those scenes of

hubbub and confusion which are now become common, and apparently indis- pensable, on such occasions. The Professors have protested against the elec- tion, and it is probable that the Crown Commission may place the power in other hands, in order to prevent a further abuse of it.—Glasgow Courier, December 4.

ZOOLOGICAL MENAGERIE.—A certain celebrated contractor has, it is said, taken legal opinions as to the possibility of indicting this establishment as a nuisance. '

INTELLECTUAL RECREATIONS FOR CHELSEA PENSIONERS.--A library and reading-room, for the house pensioners exclusively, have recently been formed

in Chelsea Hospital, by voluntary subscription, principally under the superin- tendence of the Chaplain, Dr. Yates. A spacious apartment in the building has been appropriated to these purposes, and rules and regulations for the conduct of the readers are exhibited in various parts of the room. The man who has been appointed librarian—an old soldier, and an inmate of the Hos- pital—is a good Latin, Greek, and Hebrew scholar, besides having a know- ledge of the Continental languages. His name is Callender, and he is, as may be imagined, a native of Scotland.—Morning Chronicle.

Mn. Deseeio.—This person, who for many years held a responsible situa- tion in the Exchequer, from which he was superannuated at 4001. per annum, died the other day in the rules of the Fleet Prison. He had undermined his constitution by the intemperance of his manner of life. The deceased was the son of the late General Debbeig.

A BEAR IN LOMBARD STREET.—The neighbourhood of Lombard-street was on Thursday thrown into some alarm in consequence of a bear making

his escape from a cart, on its way to a hairdresser's, and entering George-yard, unmuzzled. The animal proceeded to a house in the court, and fiuding the door of Mr. Rickman's counting-house wide open, quietly walked in. The terrified clerk hastily effected his retreat, whilst the unmoved visitor passed to an empty room, where lie was overtaken by four persons armed with bludgeons, and after being secured, was led back to the cart.

RIFLE-SHOOTING AT CHALK FARM.—A new landlord having entered on these premises, orders were given to have the ground improved for the recep- tion of the amateurs of rifle-shooting in the ensuing season. On the spot where the target was situated, they dug up lead, the remains of bullets which had penetrated a considerable depth into the ground, to the enormous weight of 33601bs. _ SPORTING EXTRAORDINARY.—St. John's market, at Liverpool, having been much infested with rats, a grand hunt was determined upon, and upwards of

300 were shortly destroyed by the dogs. For a few days it was supposed that all the rats had been destroyed ; but as this was found not to be the case, another hunt took place, and between 300 and 400 more were destroyed.

POPULATION.—MTS. Parsons, of Basingstoke, Hants, wife of John Parsons, the Southampton Telegraph coachman, was lately delivered of four fine boys, who, with their mother, are all likely to du well.

Sir Daniel Williams has resigned, on account of old age and infirmities, the Office of Chairman at the Sessions for the Liberty of the Tower.

EDINBURGH IN 1828.—The Scotsman sets forth the "old romantic town" by way of inventory, as follows :—Population ( including Leith), 170,000, 1 royal palace, 1 college, 31 professors, 1 riding-school, 1 military academy, 700 teachers of all branches of education, 1 royal exchange, 70 churches, 2 theatres, 13 courts of justice, 400 advocates, 800 writers to the signet and solicitors, &c., 86 accountants, 40 physicians, 70 surgeons, 100 apothecaries, 7 libraries, 11 newspapers, 42 insurance companies and agencies (34 of these are English), 11 public hospitals, 60 charitable institutions, 25 literary so- cieties, 80 royal mail and stage coaches, 86 hackney coaches, 400 carriers, 80 public offices, 850 streets, squares, lanes, &c., 5 bridges.

PROPHETIC DREAM.—Between eight and nine months ago, a woman of this town dreamt that a female of her acquaintance had died in childbed. She communicated her dream to the female in question, who laughed at it, and treated it as idle coinage of the woman's brain. A few days ago, however, the individual was taken in labour, and died under the very circumstances pm- figured in the dream.—Liverpool Albion.

THE FRENCH IN GREECE.—The French Minister of the Interior has written to the Royal Academy of the Sciences, of Inscriptions, and of the Fine Arts, inviting them to select such savans and artists as may appear fit to be empow- ered to visit Greece, in order to explore that country under the protection of the French army.

M. Champollion the younger, who heads the French literary expedition to Egypt, arrived at Grand Cairo on the 19th of September last, and wrote letters to his friends in Paris to the 27th of the same month. He remained for a day on the site of the ancient Sais, whose cemetery or necropolis he discovered and examined. It is a parallelogram, having the smaller sides 1,440 feet, and the greater 2,160 feet long. The walls are 54 feet in thickness, and 80 fee t high.

CULTURE OF COCHINEAL.—T,he cochineal insects have been introduced into Spain from America; and they thrive well in the neighbourhoodof Cadiz. From Cadiz a quantity of them were lately carried to Malta, on account of the British Government, by Dr. Gorman, and it is said that they are likely to do well on that island. The plant Apuntia, or prickly thorn, on which they subsist, abounds on all the coasts of the Mediterranean.

MEDICAL EXPERIMENT.—An apothecary at Bienne, near Berne, lately fell a victim to experiments on the internal application of phosphorus. Finding no ill effects from the first doses, he increased the quantity gradually, and took in the space of a few days no less than six ounces. He became insensi- ble, and expired after remaining four days in that state.

SCARLET FEVER—This disease is raging with great fury at Ghent. No fewer than forty-seven children were carried off by it in three days. M. LUCAS DE LA CHAMPTONNIERE.—This gentleman, one of the oldest de- fenders of the ancient monarchy, and one of the best citizens of new France, Member of the Chamber of Deputies) Knight of the Legion of Honour, died

on the 22nd of November, at Nantes, aged sixty years. During the Vendeean war he distinguished himself, by his opposition to the excesses of the Revolu-

tion, and exerted his talents in favour of legitimacy until the general pacifica- tion. On his return, by his exalted mind and great abilities, he obtained the respect of alt who knew him, and for twenty-five years retained the office of Mayor of Branis, near Nantes.—Journal des Debats.

FRENCH MISER.—A French paper gives an account of the death of a miser, the Marquis of M—, in whose apartments, after his decease, were found 3,500,000 francs (about 140,0001.) It is said that he has no relations Within the 12th degree, and his treasure has, in consequence, been lodged in the Caisse des Consignations till his heirs establish their claims. Had there been no heir in the twelfth degree, the sum would have fallen to the state. The old miser was so anxious to be reckoned poor, that on one occasion, when he dropped some pieces of gold in descending the stair-case, and when the porter who had picked them up offered to restore them, he refused them, de- nied that they were his, and declared that he never had any gold, LONGEVITY.—There is now living at Lausanne a woman 114 years old, having been born in the year 1714. She has had two husbands, has passed a considerable part of her life disguised in men's clothes, and was for seven years employed as a courier in the service of a Milanese Prince.. It is re- markable, that having been completely bald at fifty, she subsequently reco- vered a fine head of hair. Her chief nourishment is coffee, with a large ad- mixture of sugar ; it is said that she drinks forty cups per day. She is in excellent health, and does not appear more than sixty years old.—Piedmon- tese Gazette.

A SPANISH MIRACLE.—A nun of one of the convents near Madrid had been given over by the physicians, and appeared to have only a few minutes to live.

She was placed at the feet of the figure of Saint Diego de Alcala, on the 12th November, his festival. She prayed to the saint with so much fervour that the figure began to speak, and told the nun that she would be perfectly cured in twenty-four hours, at the same time desiring her to go back to her com- panions. The nun was cured as the saint had prophecied, and she soon after danced before her physicians with much grace and activity.

GODS OF CHINA.—A proclamation by the Emperor of China states that his late victory over the Pretender to his Throne was occasioned by the gods Rwante

and Rwanfootsze, the latter the Chinese god of war. To the latter new names and honours are dedicated; and, according to the proclamation of the Em- peror, this gratitude is but proper, as the one deity raised a storm of dust and sand in the face of his foes, and the other plucked out their spirits, and both appeared in red flames.

A BRACE OF Asses.—The late King of Naples, playing once at cards, ex- claimed, on making a fault, " Sono una bestia-1 am an ass." Duke , who was playing with him, made a mistake soon after, and said, 11Anch'io sono bestiabdella S. M.—And I am a greater ass than your Majesty." The King never played with him again.

Does IN SOUTH AMERICA.—The first importation of dogs into South America was at the second voyage of Columbus. In his first battle with the

Indians in South America he had twenty blood-hounds, which were afterwards

employed in Mexico and New Granada, where their race remains almost with- out change. They are now used chiefly for stag-hunting, and are as formidable in their attack upon that animal, as they were formerly to the natives. Many of the South American dogs of pure race inherit the necessary instinct for the chase of the wild hog, in which they are employed. The address of this dog consists in moderating its ardour, so as not to attack any particular animal, but to keep in check the number by which it may be surrounded; whereas a dog of bastard race, whatever may be its strength, is, for want of this precau- tion, instantly devoured.—New Monthly Magazine.